“Provocative”: Russia After Poland Bans Its Foreign Minister From Meet
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Russia Saturday blasted Warsaw’s refusal to permit Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to wait a assembly subsequent month of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe as “exceptional and provocative”. “The selection from Poland, that is the performing chairman of the OSCE, to refuse the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov withinside the OSCE’s ministerial assembly in Lodz on December 1-2 is exceptional and provocative,” the overseas ministry stated of the collection of ministers from the world’s biggest safety frame. “Not handiest did Warsaw discredit itself, it additionally induced irreparable harm to the credibility of the agency as a whole,” the ministry stated.
Poland stated Friday it’d now no longer allow Lavrov, below European sanctions, withinside the us of a for the assembly. “Delegations need to be adjusted to the cutting-edge EU rules and now no longer consist of people which can be sanctioned with the aid of using the European Union,” the Polish OSCE chairmanship stated in a statement.
“With such unfavorable decisions, the Poles… are pushing the OSCE into the abyss,” the Russian overseas ministry answered. It stated the flow could be “depriving (the OSCE) of the remaining hazard to expose its relevance in strengthening safety and setting up cooperation, for which it changed into created”. The ministry charged that the safety frame changed into turning into “a platform for political display and anti-Russian exercises”.
“We are satisfied that each one practical politicians percentage the placement of the Russian facet concerning the inadmissibility of such actions,” it stated. The Russian delegation will alternatively be led with the aid of using Russia’s everlasting consultant to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich.
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